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- autumn 1992
- Article
Industrial Groups as Contractual Governance Systems
By: W. C. Kester
Kester, W. C. "Industrial Groups as Contractual Governance Systems." Oxford Review of Economic Policy 8, no. 3 (autumn 1992): 24–44.
- November 1999 (Revised December 1999)
- Case
U.S. Government and Food Safety, The
By: Ray A. Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Hal Hogan
Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Food; Safety; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States
Goldberg, Ray A., Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Hal Hogan. "U.S. Government and Food Safety, The." Harvard Business School Case 900-014, November 1999. (Revised December 1999.)
- October 6, 2020
- Article
COVID-19 Is Rewriting the Rules of Corporate Governance
By: Lynn S. Paine
Boards are facing a complex new reality as a result of COVID-19. The new environment is characterized by pressures and demands from various stakeholder groups, heightened expectations for societal engagement and corporate citizenship, and radical uncertainty about the... View Details
Paine, Lynn S. "COVID-19 Is Rewriting the Rules of Corporate Governance." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (October 6, 2020).
- December 2010
- Article
Rating the Ratings: How Good are Commercial Governance Ratings?
By: Robert M. Daines, Ian D. Gow and David F. Larcker
Proxy advisory and corporate governance rating firms (such as RiskMetrics/Institutional Shareholder Services, GovernanceMetrics International, and The Corporate Library) play an increasingly important role in U.S. public markets. They rank the quality of firm corporate... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Markets; Rank and Position; Quality; Business and Shareholder Relations; Voting; Change; Information; Outcome or Result; United States
Daines, Robert M., Ian D. Gow, and David F. Larcker. "Rating the Ratings: How Good are Commercial Governance Ratings?" Journal of Financial Economics 98, no. 3 (December 2010): 439–461.
- 03 Oct 2018
- News
How Corporate Governance is Evolving at America's Top Companies
- January 1993 (Revised June 1995)
- Case
Arbitrage in the Government Bond Market?
Documents a pricing anomaly in the large and liquid treasury bond market. The prices of callable treasury bonds seem to be inconsistent with the prices of noncallable treasuries and an arbitrage opportunity appears to exist. Permits instructors to introduce the... View Details
Edleson, Michael E., and Peter Tufano. "Arbitrage in the Government Bond Market?" Harvard Business School Case 293-093, January 1993. (Revised June 1995.)
- October 2024
- Case
a16z: Governance in Decentralized Protocols (A)
By: Shai Bernstein and Liang Wu
Bernstein, Shai, and Liang Wu. "a16z: Governance in Decentralized Protocols (A)." Harvard Business School Case 825-068, October 2024.
- May 1994 (Revised August 1994)
- Case
Motorola: Government and Systems Technology Group
By: Janis Lee Gogan, Donna B. Stoddard and Shoshana Zuboff
Keywords: Electronics Industry
Gogan, Janis Lee, Donna B. Stoddard, and Shoshana Zuboff. "Motorola: Government and Systems Technology Group." Harvard Business School Case 494-137, May 1994. (Revised August 1994.)
- 22 Mar 2009
- News
Resistance grows to Obama's bigger government
- June 2025
- Teaching Note
Steem versus Hive: Testing Blockchain Governance
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
- September 2021
- Teaching Note
Vignettes on Professional Service Firm Governance
By: David G. Fubini, Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan Ni
- 21 Jun 2022
- News
Government Doesn’t Take Enough Risks. Let’s Change That.
- 1991
- Book
Competitiveness and the State: Government and Business in Twentieth-Century Britain
By: G. Jones and M. W. Kirby
This book looks at the relationship between the British government and business since 1900, and examines the impact of government policies on business, productivity and competitiveness. The authors argue that government has a legitimate role to play in improving... View Details
Keywords: Political History; Policy; Business History; Performance Consistency; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Productivity; Business and Government Relations; Competitive Strategy; Europe
Jones, G., and M. W. Kirby, eds. Competitiveness and the State: Government and Business in Twentieth-Century Britain. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1991.
- November 1999
- Article
Why Governments Implement Temporary Stabilization Programs
By: Laura Alfaro
Keywords: Government and Politics
Alfaro, Laura. "Why Governments Implement Temporary Stabilization Programs." Journal of Applied Economics 2, no. 2 (November 1999).
- 06 Aug 2019
- News
When Government Spending Is a Moneymaker
- June 2019
- Article
Social Risk, Fiscal Risk, and the Portfolio of Government Programs
We develop a model of government portfolio choice in which a benevolent government chooses the scale of risky projects in the presence of market failures and tax distortions. These two frictions generate motives to manage social risk and fiscal risk. Social risk... View Details
Hanson, Samuel G., David S. Scharfstein, and Adi Sunderam. "Social Risk, Fiscal Risk, and the Portfolio of Government Programs." Review of Financial Studies 32, no. 6 (June 2019): 2341–2382. (Internet Appendix Here.)
- 2010
- Working Paper
Corporate Governance When Founders Are Directors
By: Feng Li and Suraj Srinivasan
We examine CEO compensation, CEO retention policies, and M&A decisions in firms where founders serve as a director with a non-founder CEO (founder-director firms). We find that founder-director firms offer a different mix of incentives to their CEOs than other firms.... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Retention; Managerial Roles; United States
Li, Feng, and Suraj Srinivasan. "Corporate Governance When Founders Are Directors." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-018, August 2010.
- 1986
- Chapter
Government Relations in the Global Firm
By: L. T. Wells Jr. and Amir Mahini
Wells, L. T., Jr., and Amir Mahini. "Government Relations in the Global Firm." In Competition in Global Industries, edited by M. E. Porter. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1986. (Also in Competizione Globale, published by Isvor-Fiat, Turin, Italy, 1987.)